Tuesday, April 10, 2007

I am a wild seed ~ let the wind carry me

In my quest to draw everything in my house I stopped by the spice rack. I'm quite happy with this. It reminds me of the illustrations you'd find in recipe books from the 70's. Books that were usually called something like 'The Whole Food Kitchen'. The kind of book that gave you interesting ideas for things to do with lentils and chick peas. The type of book where you can still smell the patchouli wafting through the pages. I dream of illustrating one of those books. One day. One day....

Andrea,I love all of your Moleskine/sepia sketches! I too really love them and don't understand why. I just wish that the new watercolor Moleskine was an exact replica of the sketchbook - just with different paper. Why doesn't the company get all of our messages - people are buying new Moleskins in the vertical format and cutting out/replacing the parer with watercolor paper!

Wow thanks everyone! I have been overwhelmed by the recent activity on this blog - which I now realise is down to appearing on Moleskinerie (which was a complete surprise). Thanks to all the new visitors and of course all my 'old' friends!! I hope I can continue to create work that you (and I) will enjoy. Thanks.

I had the same thought -- 70s cookbook -- when I saw this. I had a lot of those back in the day. It's also funny to see "Schwartz" spices. Here they have that same S on them but they say "Schilling" instead. Are you really trying to draw everything in your house? Amazing! I like the composition on this one--it could be a poster.